[time-nuts] Cesium lockup

[Bill Hawkins]

Magnus,

Congratulations. You have moved closer to the goal that motivates
us all, knowing the exact time to 10E-6 times less than human
wetware is capable of comprehending, or is that 10E-12.

It is remarkable that we are able to measure time to far more
precision than we can measure physical things, especially since
post-modern science suggests that time doesn't exist. But then,
post-modern pushes the envelope beyond all reasonable dimensions.

No criticism intended - I have enjoyed and learned from your postings.

Regards,
Bill Hawkins


-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Magnus Danielson
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 6:03 PM
To: time-nuts at febo.com
Subject: [time-nuts] Cesium lockup

Fellow time-nuts,

This evening I was presented with a dilemma, either to check if my repaired
Cs beam would lockup or go out dancing (and chasing chicks). Being told
about the dancing a bit late, being inproperly dressed, unshaved and all, I
felt the time nut in me was having a strong case, so it became a Cesium
lockup wake instead! ;O)

And yes, to the best of my abilities to judge things, after the replacement
of a tired component, my Cesium beam now locks up and behaves quite sanely.
It is still tracking in closer and closer but it seems to track along.
Before I had an oscillating behaviour since it lost lock due to noisy
measures which could be traced to a particular component. I was unable to
find a replacement but a fellow time-nut helped me out and this evening I
got the additional help to solder the replacement in.

I want to monitor the progress over the next few days (with continous
logging) but it looks very promessing. Now I have a nice little challenge in
finding out how I best is going to have it hooked up and kept running in my
rig.

So, I just wanted to share this happy feeling with some people that might
apprechiate it.

Now I may start calibrating my Rubidium (finally after all these years).

I have to arrange for a propper GPS antenna solution too. But now I have a
good feeling to start the exercises from. ;O)

Cheers,
Magnus

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